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JUUSHINKI_PANDORA

                                             October 24, 2018

"Juushinki Pandora" aka
"Last Hope"


An impressive spew of technobabble accompanies a basic post-
apocalyptic war with monsters (in which Faust transforms--
as in "transformer"-- into a warrior):

   "Quantum inductance response normal."

   "Rotation chaotic, converging to a strange attractor."

   "Ramanujan's sum result was correct."

   "The Quantum Reactor."

   "... the Earth became enveloped by an "evolution field"."

   "The line between a living thing and a machine has been blurred."

   "BRAI continued to evolve rapidly..."

   "If we compare this quantum pattern to my Hyperdrive data..."

   "Dimension vector interference interval normal."

   "Interference value normal.  And sub-elemental
   ratio reached its critical value..."

   "I can feel the worlds overlapping!"

The monsters are the now-standard excessively computery-looking
"3-D" yawn fest-- their big feature is they *evolve rapidly*
in response to attacks (i.e. they transform a lot).

There's an interesting visual motif-- for all I know
it's standard now-- where they keep intercutting the
"3-D" looking monsters with "2-D" looking humans--
so during the 3-D monster/mecha brawl, you keep seeing
abruptly intercut faces of people piloting the mecha...

      And the second episode of this show is so tedious
      I was having a "spoke too soon" feeling-- the
      "aaaargh!" fight scenes, the tedious deployment of
      cliched characters and interactions-- it could be
      theyre working the database a little too hard.

                                      OTAKU_BASE

            Azuma's philosophy is a recognition that
            you can do good work with relatively
            minimal amounts of "creativity"-- but
            perhaps it can be abused by people who
            want to turn the dial all the way down to
            zero...

            But there are some hints of something like
            thinking underlying this work-- the close of
            the second episode tries to play with "opening
            the box" of Schroedinger's Cat or
            Pandora... and there's a suggestion that the
            new magic-tech of the Quantum Hyper-drive
            works by accessing the multiverse of branching
            possibilities, and perhaps the rapid
            "evolution" of the enemy monsters shows an
            ability to reach into the multiverse, rather
            than relying on random mutations.

                And I begin to wonder if there's some
                self-conscious meta-references in play
                to Azuma... the "B.R.A.I." at war with
                the database animals.

                Give 'em what they want... and maybe
                just a little more than they were
                looking for.

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